Brinjal
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.2 lakh–₹1.8 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹67,000–₹1.3 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 9–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 25 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 56 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April 2026): about ₹3,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹55,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.